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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






2. The main character of a literary work.






3. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






4. The person who 'tells' the story.






5. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






6. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






7. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






8. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






10. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






11. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






12. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






13. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






14. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






15. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






16. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






17. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






18. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






19. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






20. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






21. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






22. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






23. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






24. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






25. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






26. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






27. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






28. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






29. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






30. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






31. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






32. What a story or play is about.






33. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






34. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






35. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






36. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






37. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






38. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






40. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






41. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






42. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






43. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






44. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






45. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






46. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






47. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






48. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






49. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






50. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.







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